Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 8th July 2023

There are 34 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 8th July 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Author whose bestselling novel King Solomon’s Mines was published as the result of a five-shilling wager with his brother that he could write a story as good as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
AAcross 10:	Writer of a comedy featuring Bottom the weaver, Flute the bellows-mender, Quince the carpenter, Snout the tinker, Snug the joiner and Starveling the tailor, who perform the play-within-the-play
AAcross 12:	Short word for flooring that can be cut or gouged into a design in relief for a method of printmaking that developed from woodcut
AAcross 13:	A vegetable substance such as anise, cinnamon, clove, mace, nutmeg or vanilla; said seasonings collectively; an aromatic bouquet or scent; or, anything that adds excitement, ginger or zest
AAcross 14:	Architect, polemicist and principal proponent of the Gothic revival who wrote Contrasts and collaborated with Sir Charles Barry on the detail, fittings and furnishings of the Palace of Westminster
AAcross 15:	English dialect word for fireside shelves for heating pans originally, later the centres/naves of wheels; or, focal points of activities, discussions, places or anything else
AAcross 16:	Any one of the bijou nacre objects ornamenting the costumes of the London costermongers known as pearly kings/queens; a bud; a small disc of chocolate; a knob at the end of a foil; or, anything of little worth
AAcross 16:	Any one of the bijou nacre objects ornamenting the costumes of the London costermongers known as pearly kings/queens; a bud; a small disc of chocolate; a knob at the end of a foil; or, anything of little worth
AAcross 17:	Fragrant herb in the mint family, particularly good for drying, like its bouquet garni companion bay and its relatives lavender, marjoram, oregano, sage and savory
AAcross 19:	A duck, goose or swan; or, such aquatic birds collectively
AAcross 21:	A term originally for a zone of Earth between two lines of latitude, then any region, and later its long-term atmospheric conditions
AAcross 24:	Word for small morsels of biscuit, cake, bread or other baked food, also used as a euphemism for “Christ”
AAcross 26:	A crudely built hut or ramshackle dwelling; or, thought to derive from the French for “to sing”, the rhythmical song to which sailors hauled ropes
AAcross 29:	Forename of an eponymous heroine introduced by her creator, Jane Austen, as “handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition”
AAcross 30:	Colour that is neither black nor white, therefore ambiguous, hence its use in a common expression referring to an ill-defined situation
AAcross 31:	Cols; intervals; openings in fences, pairs of curtains, walls etc; spaces between electrodes across which sparks can jump; or, unfilled slots in diaries
AAcross 33:	From the Latin for “Muse”, a butterfly in a family that includes the brimstone, cabbage-white, clouded yellow, cloudless sulphur, creamy marblewing and the orange-tip
AAcross 35:	A young leaping locust; a picker of flowers for flavouring beer; a person who flies from island to island; or, a shaking funnel or chute through which grain passes into a mill
AAcross 37:	Word in the medieval period for a slow-moving lazy person, that later came to describe any dilatory animal or vehicle, such as a shell-less snail
AAcross 38:	From the Latin for “offspring”, a deerling; or, its light-brown colour
AAcross 39:	Nickname of a threepenny bit; a circus clown in the English tradition; or, a baby kangaroo, koala, opossum, wallaby or other marsupial
AAcross 41:	Word for animals’ muzzles, birds’ beaks or elephants’ trunks originally, later for the more specific noses of beasts such as hedgehogs or pigs
AAcross 43:	A gas, liquid, solid or other basic structural component of the universe with a mass and volume; the subject of speech, thought, writing etc; a thing of consequence; or, a concern
AAcross 44:	A quiver of a flame, light or a television image; a tiny movement of an eye; any brief moment; or, a flash of an emotion, such as hope
AAcross 46:	From the French for “suspicions”, a word for drops, hints, traces or other slight but appreciable amounts
AAcross 48:	Japanese form of chess played on an unchecked board with wooden pieces bearing kanji
AAcross 49:	Plus fours, shooting breeks, sports jackets and other such garments of woven woollen cloth traditionally worn by English country gentry
AAcross 51:	Hautboy blown through a double reed, to whose distinctive “A” the rest of an orchestra tune their instruments
AAcross 53:	Photographer who shot the iconic “Roaring Lion” portrait of Sir Winston Churchill used on the cover of Life	KARSH
AAcross 54:	Vade-—, meaning “go with me”, an enchiridion or pocket-companion, kept at hand for consultation	MECUM
AAcross 55:	An old or dialect word for a copse, thicket or woodland; Scots for the leafy top of a potato/turnip; or, an assumed name of Lawrence of Arabia
AAcross 56:	Paint often in cake or pan form for portability, brought to its greatest heights in landscapes executed by J M W Turner and Thomas Girtin
AAcross 56:	Paint often in cake or pan form for portability, brought to its greatest heights in landscapes executed by J M W Turner and Thomas Girtin
AAcross 57:	From the Spanish for “little donkey”, a Mexican-style flour tortilla wrapped around a choice of fillings, such as beans, cheese and/or minced beef
DDown 1:	From the Greek for “garland of fields”, the botanical name of the corncockles whose association with agricultural landscapes dates back some 4,000 years
DDown 2:	Fictional doctor who forms part of an iconic detective duo with master of deduction Sherlock Holmes
DDown 3:	Italian dynasty of rulers including Isabella, a patron of the arts depicted in a portrait drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, exhibited in the Louvre	ESTE
DDown 4:	Based on a diminutive form of “Margaret”, signifying a chatterbox, the name of a black-and-white corvid with a chattering call
DDown 5:	Historically, dresses worn without corsets by ladies entertaining guests to afternoon repasts at home	TEA GOWNS
DDown 6:	Diamantés, paillettes or sequins; or, any glittering specks or spots
DDown 7:	A bribe; a hyphen; a sprint; a whack; a touch of soda or other admixture; or, general panache and peacockery
DDown 8:	Japanese poem traditionally incorporating a word/phrase, or “kigo”, symbolising a particular season
DDown 9:	From “choice morsel, pleasure”, a noun for a delicacy such as a little cake or fancy; or, an adjective that means delicately petite and pretty
DDown 11:	Arm joint whose Latin name, cubitum, derives from an old measure based on the length of the forearm
DDown 18:	English royal house whose founder, Edmund of Langley, adopted the white rose as its emblem
DDown 20:	A chassis; the skeleton of an animal, house, person or anything else; a picture surround; or, a glass case serving as a miniature greenhouse
DDown 22:	Thought to stem from the French drinking-song refrain “let us drink!”, a word meaning publicly criticise by using irony or ridicule
DDown 23:	Big cat one is said to have by the tail when in a dangerous situation from which one cannot easily escape
DDown 25:	A ditch surrounding a castle
DDown 27:	From “three oar”, an ancient galley with three banks of rowers
DDown 28:	Berths or bunks, such as those offered with breakfast or board
DDown 32:	A chair, saddle or throne; part of one’s pants synonymous with instinct or winging it; or, a manor
DDown 33:	A slip of parchment; a jury; a godet; or, a board of a door, fence, shutter, triptych or wainscoted wall
DDown 34:	Baggy centre of a sail or net; a push with horns; a gentle tap of a pitched baseball; or, a manoeuvre in which a pilot draws a half circle in the sky
DDown 36:	Word meaning well-rounded or chubby; or, dialect for a cluster, knot or flock of geese, spearmen or trees
DDown 39:	Art or skill of a flat racer, “hoop”, leaper, “pilot” or steeplechaser
DDown 40:	Informal word for a protest; a visual explanation; or, a recording showcasing an unsigned performer
DDown 42:	Affairs or business relating to espionage or spies; or, a jocular word for creepy or eerie events or things
DDown 43:	Umbrella-shaped fruit of a fungus, such as the “magic” liberty cap with hallucinogenic properties
DDown 45:	Indian silk brocade with flowers embroidered in gold/silver zari, whose Persian name means “little dream”
DDown 47:	A horseshoe bend or meander in a river, named for its resemblance to the U-shape of the collar of a yoke	OX-BOW
DDown 48:	Word for an academy that also describes a multitude of fish
DDown 49:	Devices such as countdowns, hourglasses and stopwatches
DDown 50:	Athenian legislator whose law code, written in blood, prescribed death for even trivial offences such as cabbage theft, idleness and scrumping
DDown 52:	English painter of nudes	ETTY
DDown 54:	Known as a Milky Way in the US, a confection of caramel, chocolate and nougat that shares its name with the Red Planet